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    Deep Dive // 2026 Outlook

    5 construction trends to watch in 2026

    Contractors will be keeping tabs on material costs, data center demand, interest rates and more this year.

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    What construction leaders need to know for 2026

    It’s anyone’s guess what the next 12 months will look like. Here, nonresidential building pros share insights on data centers, immigration and more to bring the year into focus.

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    Safety Week 2026

    How 3 builders are using AI for safety

    Skanska, Turner and Balfour Beatty have leveraged artificial intelligence for training, situational analysis and preventing serious injuries on roadwork jobsites.

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    AI procurement tool evaluates local government contract solicitations before they’re sent

    More than 60% of public agencies receive an average of only two to five bids per solicitation, according to Euna Solutions. Its AI Solicitation Advisor aims to help bolster those numbers.

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    ‘Energy security’ drives Schneider Electric growth: CEO

    Revenue jumped in part due to the AI boom, while geopolitical uncertainty boosted the outlook for electrified, digitized building systems, executives said on the company’s first-quarter earnings call. 

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    Safety Week 2026

    Big contractors seek to standardize safety language

    Workers find hazard planning and identification vary from jobsite to jobsite. Construction Safety Week leaders are looking to adopt the same vocabulary.

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    Opinion

    The hidden cost of rapid infrastructure growth in Texas

    As billions flow into transportation, water and public works, the push to build faster may be putting construction quality at risk, an infrastructure builder writes.

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    AECOM Hunt, Turner JV launch $2.4B Cleveland Browns stadium project

    Shovels hit dirt April 30 on the new NFL venue despite a lingering class-action lawsuit challenging $600 million in state funding.

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    Safety Week 2026

    Turner Construction shares AI safety tech with broader industry

    The New York City-based contractor developed SafeT Coach and tested it across its jobsites with tens of thousands of interactions.

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    Drugmaker AbbVie chooses North Carolina for $1.4B manufacturing campus

    The 185-acre site will be the company’s largest single investment to date, with a focus on small-volume parenteral products like vials and prefilled syringes.

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    Safety Week 2026

    Major contractors are ‘All In Together’ for Construction Safety Week

    This year’s theme focuses on recognizing, responding and respecting, which applies not only to serious hazards on the jobsite but to the tradespeople performing the work.

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    Senators introduce bill to enforce Buy America compliance

    The legislation follows an Office of Inspector General audit that found the FAA failed to include required Buy American-related clauses in contracts funded through the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.

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    Lessons from Maine’s data center moratorium debate for construction

    Data center partners at K&L Gates, a Pittsburgh-based law firm, discuss statewide limits, the 20-megawatt cap and construction activity. 

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    Border, data center work drive Granite’s revenues higher

    Federal contracts now represent about 15% of the infrastructure builder’s business, while site prep for data centers is approaching 10% of its total work, according to a Q1 2026 earnings call.

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    Punch List: McCarthy tops out laser facility, Miami firm names first new CEO in 58 years

    Plus, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced $30 million highway and bridge projects and California’s proposed water tunnel took a step forward.

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    Kiewit ‘off-ramped’ from Baltimore’s Key Bridge rebuild

    The Maryland Transportation Authority informed the firm Tuesday that it would not be retained for the next phase of the project’s construction, which has seen its cost balloon.

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    Multifamily housing starts rose in March, but permits fell

    The Northeast region showed the greatest strength in overall new residential construction, per a new report from HUD and the U.S. Census Bureau.

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    Fed holds main rate steady, notes risks to jobs, inflation from Iran war

    Jerome Powell said after the end of his term as Federal Reserve chair in May he will remain on the board as a governor to help ensure the Fed is free of political interference.

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    $1.45B Chicago airport project goes vertical

    The AECOM Hunt Clayco Bowa JV has reached a milestone on the job, which will add 19 gates to Concourse D at O’Hare International Airport.

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    Garney breaks ground on $1.2B Florida wastewater treatment facility

    The Kansas City, Missouri-based contractor expects the facility to begin treating initial flows by September 2028, with full project completion slated for 2030.

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    Opinion

    How the trades figured out the best use for AI

    Builders working on jobsites have had to leverage the tech out of necessity, leading to surprising advantages, a tech exec writes.

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    Granite scoops up Utah infrastructure contractor

    The California-based firm bought Kenny Seng Construction, which focuses on earthwork and site preparation as well as managing a gravel pit and recycling yard. 

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    ASCE flags risks after Trump administration fires National Science Foundation board

    The NSF's research supported resilient building for withstanding natural disasters, ASCE President Marsha Anderson Bomar said in a statement.

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    US hotel construction pipeline down roughly 5% YOY in Q1 2026

    Despite the decline, the luxury segment reached a record 102 projects in the quarter, up 16% year over year, per a Lodging Econometrics report.

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    Chicago breaks ground on $5.7B Red Line transit extension

    The addition, the largest capital project in the Chicago Transit Authority’s history, will give the city’s Far South Side area access to rapid rail transit for the first time.